We’re happy to announce the Normal Availability of VMware Chargeback™ 8.10 On-Prem, previously referred to as vRealize Operations Tenant App™, protecting new pricing and metering capabilities.
VMware Chargeback v8.10 is included for cloud suppliers with the acquisition of VMware Cloud Director™. Companions focused on studying extra can attain out to their VMware gross sales workforce.
Earlier than we dive in additional to know what’s new with this launch, please word:
- vRealize Operations Tenant App is now rebranded to VMware Chargeback.
- The earlier launch of the vRealize Operations Tenant App was v8.6, and the subsequent launch is the present one, VMware Chargeback v8.10.
- VMware Chargeback is now accessible as a SaaS providing, The Software program-as-a-Service (SaaS) providing shall be accessible as early entry, with restricted availability, with the acquisition or trial of the VMware Cloud Director™ service. See, Saying VMware Chargeback for Managed Service Suppliers Weblog.
What’s VMware Chargeback?
VMware Chargeback allows metering and chargeback capabilities, together with offering visibility into infrastructure utilization by means of efficiency and capability dashboards for the suppliers and tenants.
To assist Cloud Suppliers and tenants realise extra worth for each greenback they spend on infrastructure (ROI) (and in flip present related worth to their tenants), our focus is to not solely increase the protection of companies that may be priced in VMware Chargeback, but additionally to supply visibility into the price of infrastructure to suppliers, and billing abstract to organizations, clearly highlighting the fee incurred by numerous enterprise items.
What’s New in VMware Chargeback v8.10 on-prem and VMware Chargeback service?
Invoice abstract for organizations and visibility into infrastructure price
Invoice abstract for organizations
Along with charging the assorted enterprise items or producing payments on the group VDC degree, suppliers might present a invoice abstract at a company degree, clearly segregating the fee incurred by the assorted enterprise items. Along with organization-level payments appearing as a abstract, it could additionally assist suppliers cost for sources consumed at a company degree relatively than at a person enterprise unit degree.
Visibility into infrastructure price
Suppliers can now see the assorted price metrics, corresponding to unallocated price, within the totally different overview sections. The entire worth and value visibility is supposed to offer suppliers a way of Revenue and loss for his or her infrastructure investments.
Be aware: The above screenshot is simply an instance from one of many dashboards. Price visibility is out there in numerous locations like dashboards, reviews, billing, and so forth.!
Pricing growth to new companies
Pricing NSX Superior Load Balancer/ AVI Load Balancer
Suppliers can now cost for consumption of NSX® Superior Load balancer™ based mostly on throughput. They will create slabs with totally different charges for throughput values.
Pricing Cloudian Storage
Suppliers can now cost for consumption of Cloudian storage, based mostly on storage. They will create slabs with totally different charges for storage values. Billable solely on the group degree.
UI Enhancements
Operations Overview Dashboard Enhancements
To make sure suppliers and their tenants get fast entry to related data, Operations Overview Dashboard has been up to date. The dashboards Overviews and Pricing Coverage part have been revamped to supply a extra intuitive sequential circulation within the pricing coverage and to incorporate important metrics on the house web page.
Filter Possibility on listing view Dashboards
Have a big buyer base and stock? Now you can filter any accessible merchandise in an inventory view and discover the objects shortly and simply.
What are the extra choices accessible solely within the VMware Chargeback service providing?
Getting Began Web page (VMware Chargeback service Solely)
Within the VMware Chargeback service providing to get began with the chargeback service, you can be guided on easy methods to carry out a step-by-step configuration course of to begin gathering the information.
Invoice Knowledge Retention (VMware Chargeback service Solely)
View and handle historic knowledge retention-related system settings. Customers can tune these settings to handle cupboard space consumed by the VMware Chargeback Service. You possibly can configure the variety of days to retain the generated payments.
Auto Discovery (VMware Chargeback service Solely)
VMware Chargeback service will auto-discover the Cloud Director service situations on the time of preliminary configuration. After that, the Cloud Director service situations could be found with a single click on.
Supportability
Cloud Suppliers ought to use VMware Chargeback on-prem for managing VMware Cloud Director (VCD) and word that VMware Chargeback service will help metering VMware Cloud Director™ service (CDs) as of this launch.
Licensing updates
- VMware Chargeback backed by vRealize Operations with Customary license will now embrace OOTB dashboard entry for Group, Group VDC, vApps, Digital Machines, and so forth., by default to the suppliers and tenants.
- Beforehand solely a supplier admin might choose the metrics from the Metrics selector sections. Nonetheless, with this launch, the potential can also be being prolonged to the tenants.
Improve Path for VCD Mode
You possibly can obtain VMware Chargeback on-prem v8.10 from right here.
| Present Model | Path | Goal Model | The way to improve? |
| 8.6.2 GA | Direct to eight.10 | 8.10 | iso-upgrade/ update-repo |
| 2.6.3 GA | Direct to eight.10 | 8.10 | iso-upgrade/update-repo |
| 2.5.2 GA | Step1: Improve to 2.6.3 Step2: From 2.6.3 improve to eight.10 |
8.10 | iso-upgrade/update-repo |
| 2.4.2 GA | Step1: Improve to 2.5.2 Step2: From 2.5.2 improve to 2.6.3 Step3: From 2.6.3 improve to eight.10 |
8.10 | iso-upgrade/update-repo |
No Upgrades are carried out for VC mode at the moment.
Compatibility with vRealize Operations
- Solely vRealize Operations v8.10 shall be appropriate with VMware Chargeback v8.10 as a result of there are various pricing and billing engine updates in vRealize Operations 8.10, that are utilized by VMware Chargeback 8.10.
- If any buyer shouldn’t be in a state to improve to VMware Chargeback v8.10 and needs to make use of vRealize Operations v8.10, then on case to case foundation, a hotfix shall be launched.
Be aware: VMware Chargeback versioning quantity will align with vRealize Operations versioning.
VMware Cloud Director Compatibility
VMware Cloud Director variations 10.2.2, 10.3.0, 10.3.1, 10.3.2, 10.3.3, and 10.4.0 are appropriate as of this launch date. For future VMware Cloud Director launch help and compatibility, please confer with the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix.
What subsequent?
For extra particulars and understanding see the next documentation:
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Please contact the Product Supervisor at ankrishna@vmware.com for any detailed queries associated to VMware Chargeback on-prem.
